Allegiance Credit Union will host a come-and-go reception in honor of retiring president and CEO Lynette Leonard on Tuesday, Dec. 19, from 2-5 p.m. at the ACU Operations Center, 4227 N. Meridian Ave. in Oklahoma City (adjacent to the company’s main branch).

The National Credit Union Foundation has announced the addition of Chad Helminak as the new Director of Credit Union Development and Cooperative Values Engagement, effective Jan. 29, 2018. Helminak will lead the Foundation’s popular Credit Union Development Education (DE) Training and engage the growing corps of Credit Union Development Educators (CUDEs).

Every day we make assumptions about relationships, work, and health—unexamined expectations responsible for creating most of our unhappiness and disappointments. Personal excellence expert Anne Barab says the sooner we unmask and laugh at these unrealistic beliefs, the faster we unlock the doorway to personal and professional excellence.